The Antics of Luke

Every family should be fortunate enough to have a child like Luke. He is definitley our most confident child and keeps us on our toes when it comes to parenting, he is also good for a few laughs. These stories all happened in the last 2 weeks.

We had been watching some baby birds all day last week, they were hopping around our driveway near the fence where the black moron resides. They were also trying to get into my right side neighbors yard, who happen to have 2 morons of their own. This was an all day affair of rescuing baby birds, relocating baby birds, and keeping the cat at bay. Well that evening we saw one dead in the neighbors yard, Luke was upset and angry about it. This past tuesday I found out from the homeowner that Luke had gone over there last week and was calling for Marshall (that's the neighbor) at their gate.
Marshall "Hey Luke, what can I do for you"

Luke " Marshall do you know that one of your dogs killed a baby bird yesterday"

Marshall "yeah I saw that"

Luke "what are you gonna do about it"

Marshall "I can't do anything about it, the bird is dead"

Luke " I want you to do something about it, one of your dogs is a killer and I don't like it"

Story number 2 took place sometime last week also. My left side neighbors love all my children, but get particular pleasure from Luke because he goes over and talks to them all the time. Well the other day Linda (my neighbor) was cleaning her teenage daughters bedroom and bathroom, when Luke walked in. I hope he knocked but it is questionable, I think he does the hello at the door and then walks in, anyway she was cleaning and Luke starts in with her.

Luke " what are you doing in here"

Linda "I'm cleaning Cameron's room"

Luke " why would you do that"

Linda "I don't know, it's just something I do"

Luke" Aunt Linda Cameron is a big girl, and she should clean her own bathroom"

Luke"you should make her clean it up, since she made the mess"

Linda " ya know Luke you are right, I will"

Of course I found this out after the fact.

Story #3
Last night I ran to the grocery store while Nate was home supervising the kids chores. They were all doing extra chores to get more spending money for our vacation next week. Luke was cleaning the hall bathroom, Nate had said he would give him 2-3 bucks depending on how good of a job he did. When I got home trouble was a brewing.

Luke "Mom, Dad is a liar, he said I would get 3 dollars and now he says I'll only get 2"

Me "No I heard him say 2 or 3, and don't call daddy a liar"

Luke " Well he is one, and I trashed the bathroom"

Me " If you call daddy a liar again you are getting some swats"

Luke"I trashed the bathroom"

Me " what does that mean"

LUke "you'll see"

Me "not now I have groceries to put away."

I talked to Nate after I had put the groceries away to see what happened with Luke. He said it took him about 45 mins to clean the bathroom and 2 bucks is what he wanted to pay. I thought that it was more than generous, but we were trying to be extra generous since we are going on a trip. I walked by the bathroom and saw dirt on the floor, then I went further in and saw dirt in the sink, as I stared aghast, I saw dirt on the toilet and behind the toilet. It looked like potting soil all in the bathroom.

Me "NATE GET IN HERE PLEASE, and HURRY"

Nate" LUKE GET IN HERE NOW!!!!"

Luke "what?"

Nate "what happened in here"

Luke " I told mommy I trashed the bathroom because I'm mad that you are a liar"

Me"I can't believe you would do this" "This is so naughty"

Luke " I trashed the shower also", "I quess you can see that I was pretty mad"

The story goes on but I will stop there. He ended up paying us an extra 2 dollars to clean it up and had to go to bed by himself, plus a few other things.

Story #4
Today Luke comes running in the house and asks if he can go to the store with Peter (left side neigbor married to Linda)

Me " sure, but don't ask him to buy you anything"

Luke" I won't, I think he wants to buy me something"

Me "I don't think so, but make sure you don't ask him for anything, do ou understand?"

Luke "yeah mom, bye"

I go out to see them off, and I tell Peter that Luke is not allowed to ask for anything. Peter asks me if it is okay if he buys him something, and I say ok thinking it would be some candy or small trinket. Luke comes home 10 minutes later with 3 brand new disc for disc golf for he and his brothers. I went over to the neighbors to see how this went down. Apparently Luke saw them driving up and met them at the truck.

Luke" Hey Peter, Aunt Linda, Isn't it about time we head over to Hibbets to check out the disc golf stuff?" You probably will want to buy me one"

The boys spent some time writing a little thank you note. We have got to work on their handwriting.

Story #5
Linda and Peter were having company and Luke went over to meet the company, all this happens without me knowing, he just pops over. Anyway he met a man over at their house who spent some time talking with him about the things Luke was interested in. Luke told him that he was saving money for a motorcycle and asked the man if he wanted to help him out. He came home with 78 cents, and by the time I found out about it, the company had gone home.

Honestly, except for the bathroom incident this is a typical week in the life and times of Luke. See what I mean when I say every family should be so lucky. God help me!

Out with the old

In with the new. I am cleaning up my homeschool room and getting rid of all the stuff I won't be using. We are quitting our old curriculum and starting the new. I am going to be using Saxon Math for everybody. I bought 4th and 5th grade for Austin, I think we will start at the end of 4th grade and then go into 5th probably by the fall. Evan will start 3rd grade and Luke 1st and 2nd. We are going to be learning spanish this year http://www.funclase.com/ and it looks great for children, plus my mom is puerto rican so she can help us out. We are doing The Story of the World Volume One (The Ancients) on CD and I have the workbook, I don't if we will do workbook stuff or not. I just want them to listen to it over and over. We are still doing our online www.spellingtime.com , for reading I have the phonics program from Tonya's blog and Christian Liberty press nature readers. Finally we are doing A Reason for Handwriting www.areasonfor.com, I also bought Ken Ham creation evolution starter packet for 5-9 year olds, it covers, fossils, dinosaurs, geology, and Genesis bible based science stuff. We have some DVD's to watch about evolution and creation, plus I have a science kit with over 100 experiments that Nate will be doing with them. They look really easy, but Nate said he would contribute to HS with his help on the experiments whenever possible, and I certainly will take any help I can get. I hate doing crafts and experiments. I also bought the boys some art books that teach you how to draw dinosaurs and another one that covers farm animals, so that is what the upcoming school year is going to look like, as soon as we get back from FL.

I Made it

I made it to the home school conference for most of it. Nanny offered yesterday afternoon to watch the kids so Nate and I could go, but 30 min before we were to leave Nate got sick. Poor baby spent the night in the bathroom, I on the other hand did not know this because Nate had already sent me on my way with my friend Deeann. He wasn't very sick at the time I'd left. Well God is good, I didn't get sick while down there, I had a great time with the girls, and I found material that I think I'm going to like a whole lot better than the stuff I used this year. I've decided to just go ahead and get started with my new stuff, and either sell the stuff I used this year or save it till they are alittle older. The only downer is that Austin was suppossed to get baptized Sunday at church, and he was really looking forward to it, now he will have to wait a while before they do them again. Oh by the way Nate said he never supervised the children at all today and had no idea what they did, well the house smells a little funny, but the boys for the most part kept it pretty clean. I'm proud of them.